[2020] The new Outfit War meta

This has been addressed a few times over (and please give these links a look,) but this initial release is intended to give us a baseline for how we want to tune this in a future update (which at this point is looking like an April release post-Outfit Wars Alpha 1.)

All of the concerns are valid, they've all been accounted for and discussed well before this update was released, and we already have a list of changes we're looking to introduce.

I understand we're all a bit impatient here because we're excited to see the system improve (or are disappointed that your "competitive outfit" isn't going to be able to compete this go around,) but I'd like you all to continue to trust the process.

Like I said about 14 minutes ago, changes are coming in the next update, and it's important that we're able to gather data now so that we aren't kneejerking that leaves us reeling for multiple month periods trying to line it all up. This has been the case in the past, and with the increased team resources, getting it done right is way more important than getting it done fast.

An example of what will be coming in the next update are limitations on how many outfit members can contribute to scoring on a base capture. So your "actually took the time to learn the game" outfit coordination will pay off more easily.

if only the top X players (score-wise) were accounted for in a battle, when deciding who gets the ownership, wouldn't that be an even better approach?

That's how this will work.

EDIT: It occurs to me that you may have meant a single player from a participating outfit is all you'd score. How we'd like scoring to work is that we take x of the highest scoring players within an outfit, and their combined score is what's used to determine who takes the base. We want outfit-based goals to require multiple outfit members, but not so many that only excessively large outfits are the ones reaping all the benefits.

if a random zergfit has 2000 people sitting on the point padding ammo, because most (if not all) of them won't matter.

We're looking to address this as well by rewarding specific actions, instead of all methods of raw experience gain as it does currently. We'll release more details when it's time.